| 单词 | well-made play |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswell-made play b. Of a play, novel, etc.: written in a formulaic manner which aims at neatness of plot and foregrounding of dramatic incident rather than naturalism, depth of characterization, intellectual substance, etc. Esp. in well-made play. Now chiefly historical. [Apparently after French pièce bien faite (1749 or earlier in this sense). Quot. 1881 is from a newspaper article based on, and citing in translation, Zola's Le roman expérimental (1880); Zola does not use pièce bien faite in that work, although it does occur e.g. in his Le naturalisme au théâtre (1881).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1881 tr. É. Zola in N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 10/2 The well-made play, made, that is to say, upon a certain regular and symmetrical pattern, became a curious and amusing plaything. 1897 Daily News 5 Jan. 6/1 There has been..a very decided reaction against the ‘well-made’ novel—that is the novel cunningly planned and ingeniously conducted to a definite dénouement. 1910 G. B. Shaw Brieux 13 Commercially, the classic play was supplanted by a nuisance which was not a failure: to wit, the ‘well made play’ of Scribe and his school. The manufacture of well made plays is not an art: it is an industry. 1962 Listener 11 Oct. 574/1 The merits and the demerits of a Galsworthian ‘well-made’ play. 2003 M. Gibińska in A. L. Pujante & T. Hoenselaars Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Eur. 55 A dogma that underlay all expectations of a ‘well-made’ tragedy or comedy. < as lemmas |
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